Posted on 10/15/2006 5:13:02 PM PDT by madprof98
Gerry E. Studds, who championed environmental, maritime, and fisheries issues during 24 years in the US House of Representatives and lent an eloquent voice to health and human rights matters, died early yesterday.
First elected in 1972, Studds entered politics as part of a generation emboldened by its opposition to the Vietnam War and turned his focus in Congress to issues close to the hearts of his constituents. A Democrat, Studds had been reelected five times when in 1983 he became the first member of Congress to openly acknowledge he was gay.
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He publicly disclosed his sexual orientation [only] after a former congressional page, then 27, said in 1983 that he and the congressman had a sexual relationship a decade earlier, when the page was 17.
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``Gerry's leadership changed Massachusetts forever and we'll never forget him," US Senator Edward M. Kennedy said in a statement. ``
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
LOL
LOL! You're sooooo bad!
a hero from the home of homosexual marriage is hardly a hero. massachusetts be damned.
Nice tag. You sure, have a link?
HIV is Gods revenge on homosexuals.
``Gerry's leadership changed Massachusetts forever and we'll never forget him," US Senator Edward M. Kennedy said in a statement. ``
Kennedy changed Massachusetts forever by proving that any dog could get elected there.
I have lived here full time since 1979. It is a pretty good place to live in a lot of ways, even if the politics is broken to a high degree.
I assure you, there are more disgusting places in this country, never mind around the world.
Actually, Massachusetts is not such a bad place. We send all our rotten folk to Washington. You deal with them.
So, is the Phelps gang going to protest his funeral? (Fat chance)
roger that
Bwahahahaha! You owe me a new keyboard!!!
Of course if had taken the miracle drug, Trinoacitol, he might be alive today!
One more piece of Boston Garbage hits the Trash heap! How many boys lives did he destroy?
Pray for W and Our Troops
I say it can't. The first thing you have to look at is the people. The working class. Real people. Massachusetts is full of good people who do NOT vote Dem. They live outside of Rt. 128 which seems to be the line of demarcation between the Legislature and real people.
The politicians are at the bottom of the heap in my opinion. The way things are at a State and Federal level these days, they are a class unto themselves...out of touch with reality and their contituents.
So, if "madprof98" of Georgia has never lived here or spent any time here and never got to know any of the people who are forced to put up with the Kennedy clan and all their ilk...he isn't fit to make a judgement about how disgusting it is or isn't in Massachusetts. We, who have brains and backbones and eschew all that is Liberal and Democrat, are the best part of this Commonwealth.
Though seriously outnumbered, we are not defined by our elected officials. Nor is the true character of Massachusetts.
Every single member of the MA congressional delegation is a Democrat.....both senators, every house member. Who's electing all those RATs? What stuns me is that you actually have a Republican governor.
Rep. Studds, a Congressional Pioneer, Dead at 69(actual National Public Radio headline)
Studds, first openly gay person elected to Congress, dead at 69 [had sex with 17-year-old page]
Former Congressman Gerry Studds Dies
Hospital: former Rep. Studds dies at 69
Reaction to the death of former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds
What is this? Studds Republic.com?
How many articles about Studds' death is going to get posted here?
What is to be gained by gloating or comparing him to Foley is going to do?
Give it a rest people. The man's DEAD. Let him RIP.
One man's hero is a lot of other men's zero.
Any sorry pretense of a man who would laud a pervert who proudly admitted to sodomizing a 17 year old boy, would let his girl friend drown in the car he drove off a bridge, while he was busy plotting an alibi in hopes of saving his political career.
But won't that just cause the pages to stick to the congressmen and require pry bars to separate the congressmen from their pages? Pry bars ain't cheap.
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